Island



(No Model.)

SLO. HOWARD.

BUTTON.

Patented May 6, 1890.

///.5 AT TORNE V5 STEPHEN O. HOWVARD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 'ASSIGNOR TO HOVARD & SON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,172, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed January 20, 1890. Serial No- 33'7Hl45. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN C. HOWARD, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons and Analogous Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to the construction of the heads of buttons constituting articles of jewelry.

The object of the improvement is to produce in a simple and inexpensive manner a button-head having its back covered with precious metal and having a forwardly-extending rim, also covered with precious metal, but having the front portion, which is surrounded by said rim and is intended to form the seat for a stone or other ornament, made, if desired, of base metal.

My improvement consists in a button-head A or analogous article consisting of a plate or disk of base metal, a rim imposed 011 one side of the same, and a plate or disk made of or surfaced with precious metal and considerably larger than the first-named plate or disk, so that its edges may be rolled around the rim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of a button-head or analogous article embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a back view. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the several parts before they are combined. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the article when completed.

Similar letters of reference design ate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a plate or disk of base metal, such as brass.

B designates a plate or disk made of or surfaced with precious metal. It will be observed would be the equivalent of theAWire, and, if

desired, the edge of the disk may be rolled over to form the rim. The edge of the plate or disk B is turned up over the outside of the rim and thence around the same toward the face of the plate or disk A. The central portion of the front of the plate or diskA Will be left exposed, so far as the plate or disk B is concerned; but when used as a button-head it is intended to be covered by a stone or analogous ornament.

By this improvement I am able to produce in a very simple and inexpensive manner a button-head surfaced with precious metal Wherever it is desirable that it should be so surfaced, and having a surface of base metal Where that Will not impair its value.

hat I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

A button-head or analogous article consisting of a plate or disk of base metal, a rim im- E. F. HEDLY, C. A. BROWN. 

